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Let's try this as a wiki. I realize there are a lot of changes. Let's try to consolidate feature requests here. I can't promise all will happen. But we will at least consider each one, and prioritize it based on feasibility and importance.

Disable text coloring or add an option the override these colors. It can hamper readability.

Add the ability to multi-quote people whose comments appear on different pages of a discussion

I'm not too hopeful for this

as far as I know, this worked from the outset.

Allow for the post/wiki editing window to be resized

the ability to make vertical adjustments would be greatly appreciated.

Bring back daily e-mail notifications of the activity that occurs in a specific forum whether they were new posts or replies

with the old forum style, I was able to set certain forums that I followed to send me a daily email notification (of all the new and reply threads in that forum for that day).

Allow for nesting of comment replies instead of everything flatly ordered in time. Each non-reply post would be the head of a sub thread and if you are interested in that point being made, you can expose the replies to it and participate. This way, we would know instantly whether someone already made the response to a post we would like to make and we can skip over off-topic replies and all the replies to that off-topic post. Nesting would significantly lower the number of pages to read through and should significantly lower the number of people making the exact same point all throughout the thread.

Let's try this as a wiki. I realize there are a lot of changes. Let's try to consolidate feature requests here. I can't promise all will happen. But we will at least consider each one, and prioritize it based on feasibility and importance.

Feature Requests
- Spy
- # of Pages per thread customization
- Exclude forums from New Posts
- sorting of replies by poster within thread when clicking on 'number of replies' in thread lists
- more posts per page
- Apple logo BBcode
- If possible, allow the forum to show the number of likes, instead of x, y and 3 othersBugs

Style issues
- Don't like circular avatars
- Option to view thread lists in a more compact form
- better differentiation of quoted text
- move edit and response button from bottom left to a place where it doesn't interfere with thread flow (same for list of people who 'liked'
- smaller default font size

This one may really be impossible but I just figured out that the 'line dividing posts' doesn't. The time of the post is above the line, and the content below. Ick. Anyway to actually have a divider between posts? (Or change that light blue to something you can actually see? )

Let me at the very outset thank you for the great job you have done with the new UI.
I would consider extremely useful the following features:
1. Exclude forums from New Posts, this way users can eliminate "hundreds" of threads dealing for instance with "may delivery, june delivery etc." of certain products.
2. Sorting of replies by poster.

Doing a lot of browsing today with the new forum UI and in addition to the features Arn has mentioned; I'd request that a "posts per page" display option in user preferences be added (if possible). I miss that ability already.

Would love to be able to view threads that have many pictures in it as galleries instead. Some threads are just more interesting for the pictures and not the individual posts. There must be something to accommodate this!

Would love to be able to view threads that have many pictures in it as galleries instead. Some threads are just more interesting for the pictures and not the individual posts. There must be something to accommodate this!

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I agree, especially the post your ____________ threads.

I would honestly like reporting of threads/posts to be more informative. More specifically, why a certain post reported may not be removed. I'd also like more diversity training for the moderators. They really let a lot of insults go simply because it's not an insult where they come from.

Minor thing, but the favicon or whatever controls what gets saved on iOS (shortcut to your home page) ends up not with the old Macrumors now, but XenForo blue logo. Not exactly great branding. (I'd call this a bug?)

Hi @arn
Mentioned this elsewhere, but it might have got missed with all you have going on today. On the old forum we had the Forum/Sub forum links at the bottom of the page. Now if I want to read another thread in this section I have to scroll to the top of the page to do that. Could the shortcuts be reinstated at the bottom (where one naturally finishes reading).

Too soon to start implementing changes - I personally think people need to just adjust to the new site over next few weeks and any real issues that aren't merely subjective preferences will raise there head and can be fixed.

After 10 years using this site, these changes whilst a little strange initially are for me and I'm sure many other long standing users / contributors are breath of fresh air.

Also, is it possible to make the red arrow that pops up at the bottom right while your scrolling take you to the last post on the page instead of the bottom of the page? Every time I click the arrow I end up scrolling back up to the last post.

As the day has worn on and I've been able to spend more time on MR today, I'm feeling more and more at home -- at first it was kind of like being in a house where suddenly all the furniture had been moved around and repositioned.....even though I was familiar with Xenforo from its utilization on another site. The furniture had been moved in THIS "house" and it still took a bit of adjusting! Overall, though, I feel that this was a wise and good move. I think in another week or so we'll all be saying, "wow, this is great, so much better than vB, why didn't we do this a long time ago?" LOL!

Oh, almost forgot why I was posting. Will there come a day when animated .gifs are able to move again? My "sparkly" avatar isn't quite as sparkly as it used to be since it's now still rather than animated. Not complaining, really, just an observation......

Oops, just noted the mention of this in the first post here. OK, that's fine, no hurry..... You guys have enough other stuff on your plates at the moment!

"- animated gif as avatars?
Since everyone gets an avatar, we decided to avoid animated gifs for now - arn"

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it was kind of like being in a house where suddenly all the furniture had been moved around and repositioned.....even though I was familiar with Xenforo from its utilization on another site. I think in another week or so we'll all be saying, "wow, this is great, so much better than vB, why didn't we do this a long time ago?"

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I'm not going to go as far as being completely comfortable in a week, but it's been a rather smooth transition even in the back end. It is rather disconcerting to have everything in different places than one is used to and not having some of the tools we are used to at our fingertips.

I recently took a new job that had me working part of the time in a building where I had previously worked for over a decade. I can't count the times I walked right into what used to be my office before remembering that it was now occupied by my supervisor! Fortunately he was rarely in his office. Now a year and half later, I still almost pulled off the freeway at the wrong exit due to muscle memory.

in the thread list page, it is possible to jump to the most recent post of a thread by clicking on the time it was posted, on the far right (waht previously was an arrow).
however this works only when logged in.
Is there a reason for this? it seems a functionality useful also when non-logged in and for guest visitors

Considering the size of this site, its complexity, its very large member population, I'd say that yes, this has been a very smooth transition overall! I suspect, though, that for me it was a little easier than it might have been had I not already been familiar with Xenforo somewhere else.

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